Tuesday, September 30, 2014

The Journal of the American Medical Association Tells Doctors To Start Treating People For Climate Change


From Yahoo News:
Doctors aren’t just worried about heart disease, diabetes, and obesity these days. Climate change is climbing to the top of their list of public health hazards, and that could have big implications in the political fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. 
Among the more than 310,000 demonstrators marching through Manhattan in last week’s People’s Climate March were contingents of physicians. 
And now the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the voice of the nation’s powerful medical establishment, has issued a call-to-arms to doctors, urging those in health and health-related fields to throw their weight behind climate change prevention efforts. 
“Is climate change similar to poverty and war, best left to other scientists and politicians, or is it of such fundamental importance—like clean water, clean air, and adequate sanitation—that physicians should strive to further clarify the effects of climate change on health, educate themselves and the public, and mount a campaign to ensure that climate change does not lead to an epidemic of eroding health?” wrote Howard Bauchner, JAMA editor-in-chief, and executive editor Phil Fontanarosa. 
Yes, they concluded. 
“Understanding and characterizing this threat and educating the medical community, public, and policy makers are crucial if the health of the world’s population is to continue to improve during the latter half of the 21st century,” according to Bauchner and Fontanarosa. 
The editorial accompanied a new JAMA study that found that climate change is already making us sick, and will make us even sicker as global warming accelerates.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

Latest Liberal Lunacy: Global Warming Created ISIS

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

JAMA has "jumped the shark."

The once reliable, even revered, institutions of the United States are crumbling under the leftist assault and PC. We are no longer a serious people, we are no longer a serious nation.

I have no idea what this world will look like when we come out the other end of this tunnel. I doubt I will be alive. That'll likely be a good thing.